The Vent

We support Cedar City’s efforts in the passing and enforcing of an ordinance designed to help us conserve water in order to protect our water supply. However, if this is enforced, shouldn’t the city also enforce (with the same enthusiasm) other existing ordinances? Space limitations won’t allow me to quote specific ordinances, but look at the one that limits to two dogs at any residence, or the one that prohibits animals from disrupting the neighborhood, or the definition of R-1 Residential Zones as “one family dwellings.” Is it right for the city to enforce selected ordinances while ignoring others?

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Your editor doesn’t miss a chance to promote the water pipeline. Maybe he is also in cahoots with the water people. The article in today’s paper doesn’t ask whether the pipeline will be built but only discusses where it will be built. Give us the people who will pay for it a chance to vote yes or no. We also need a editor that writes articles for the people not for the wealthy growth at any cost group.

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Nice try Nick Lang as to your Spectrum article, “Filling a vacant seat on the county commission.” However, you failed. Your comments were to be expected, as most politicians and operatives are guided by what is considered “legal” and ignore the “more weightier matters” as Jesus spoke of (which in part), includes that which is fair, ethical and doing the right thing — so the beat goes on.

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I couldn’t agree more with last week’s Vent in regards to young Christian families who are committed to mass produce eight to 10 children or more. The question is where are the day care centers to relieve the crying, yelling and screaming in the shopping centers?

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The GOP is criticizing President Obama’s plan for controlling our borders, yet they have yet to provide their own plan. so if the GOP has a plan, I would like to hear about it. Stop allowing pregnant women to cross the border, so their children can be U.S. citizens, even if you have to change the law. I understand recently that we have some lawyers representing illegal aliens crossing the border now.

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Kudos to the city for the roundabouts at the Southgate Golf Course and on 400 East. They really are an improvement for traffic in those areas. Now, please, before school starts, make the fixes on River Road at Brigham Road so we have a real barrier like there is at Diagonal and Bluff instead of just paint. That would be a much-appreciated improvement.

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So let me get this straight. The city is pulling a business license for something they think is going on but that they don’t know for sure. And an appeal is already in place for the first time the license was revoked. If that’s right, then our city council members are a bunch of hypocrites. They say they are for business, but apparently not any businesses that don’t adhere to their LDS beliefs. Either live up to your words or get out of office.

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I want to commend The Spectrum’s editorial board for its statements about a possible future for Dixie State University. A high-tech school would carve out a niche and would be beneficial to the entire area. I hope the new president will be bold and think big like this. We had the chance to affiliate with the University of Utah and didn’t. While I think that was a mistake, this seems like a great place in our school’s history to move forward on its own. Let’s carve out the niche and move ahead with a bright future.

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If you are going to have your dog with you at a park not designated specifically for dogs, please make sure you have stuff with you to pick up their excrement. We don’t need to have these stinky “land mines” in our parks for kids to step in.

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Nice try by the Republican Party chair to try to defend his party’s way of keeping its hands on the power of the area. I’m an independent and usually vote Republican, but I don’t see how we can gripe about the one-party state that is California and others for being unabashedly Democrat when we are in the same scenario on the other side of the aisle. Group think is dangerous because it leads to bad decisions. And as we’ve seen from Republican officials getting into trouble lately, we have people making very bad decisions.